ZYGOPHYLLUM. 



frutefcens, portulacx folio, Morgfani fyrorum, ex brevi 

 pediculo binis; Pluk. Amalth. 173. t. 429. f. 4.)— Leaves 

 conjugate, nearly feflile ; leaflets obovate, flat, fmooth. 

 Stem (hrubby. Capfule roundini, tumid, five-lobed — 

 Natfve of the Cape of Good Hope. A green-houfe fliriib 

 in England, flowering moll part of the fummer. Jiton. 

 The tranches are fomewhat quadrangular, very fmooth. 

 Leaflets an inch long, fucculent, but not tumid ; their com- 

 mon footjali very (hort, or altogether vpanting. Stipulas in 

 pairs, lanceolate, pointed, reflexed. Florj}er-Jlalhs the length 

 tjf the leaves, unilateral, in pairs, declining. Flowers large, 

 yellow, turning white in decay ; X.\\i\T petals obovate, entire, 

 ftreaked with purple at the bafe. Nectaries jagged or 

 fringed, as in n. 3, 4, and perhaps fome other fpecies. 

 Capfule, as reprefented by Burmann, an inch in diameter, 

 globofc, with five large, rounded, prominent lobes. We 

 find the petals uniformly five, and entire ; Linnxus fays 

 four, rarely five, and fomewhat emarginate. There is rea- 

 fon to believe he confounded more than one fpecies under 

 the prefent. He has applied a fpecific name, which pro- 

 perly belongs to Z. Fabago. 



9. Z. fefiltfolhim. Seflile-leaved Bean-Caper. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 552. Willd. n. 10. Ait. n. 7. (Fabago capenfis fru- 

 tefcens minor ; Dill. Elth.v 142. t. 116. f. 142. F. humilis 

 quajdrifolia glabra, flore albido fruftu rotundo ; Burm. 

 Afric. 4. t. 2. f. I. F. africana arborefcens, flore fulphureo, 

 fruftu rotundo ; Comracl. Rar. 10. t. to.) — Leaves conju- 

 gate, feffile ; leaflets obovate, flat, fmooth. Stem fhrubby. 

 Capfule globofe, undivided. — Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hops. A green-houfe flirub, flowering in July and Auguft, 

 which appears to have been known in our gardens for above 

 a century. Its fize is inferior to the laft;, from which, 

 according to Dillenius and Burmann, this fpecies is eflen- 

 tially diftinguifhed by the fruit. The capftile is either exaAly 

 globular, or, as Dillenius fays, deprefled like a Dutch 

 cheefe, its diameter not half an inch, nor is it furrowed, 

 nbr parted into large tumid lobes, like Z. Morgsana. The 

 leaves too are fmaller, and more perfeftly feflile. Linna:us 

 defines them " rough-edged," which we Can find nothing tc 

 countenance, even in his own fpecimen. The flowers are 

 drooping, orange-coloured, turning white as they fade ; the 

 petais crenate at the end, not much fpreading. The nec- 

 taries are fmaller, and much lefs confpicuoufly jagged than 

 in the preceding. 



10. Z. fulvum. Tawny Bean-Caper. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 ed. I. 386. (Z. feflilifolium /S ; Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 552. 

 Willd. n. 10, /S. Fabago flore luteo, petalorum unguibus 

 rubris, frudtu fulcato oblongo acuto ; Burm. Afric. 6. t. 3. 

 f. I.) — Leaves conjugate, fefiile ; leaflets obovate, flat, 

 fmooth. Stem fhrubby. Capfule ovate, five-angled, acute. 

 — Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Linnxus latterly 

 confidered this as a variety of the lalt, but we cannot dif- 

 cover on what his opinion was founded, there being nothing 

 in his herbarium to reprefent Z.fuliium- There is indeed 

 a fpecimen, referred by him at one time to Z. Morgsana, 

 and at another to coccineum, on which, having no affinity to 

 the latter, we are led to fufpeft he wrote coccineum by 

 accident ior fuhum. In this the tea-ves have fomething of a 

 common footjlalk, though very fliort. The nedaries are long 

 and jagged, as in Morgsana. There is unluckily no fruit. 

 Burmani.'s figure of the capfuleh foprecife, that, confider- 

 ing the analogy of other fpecies, fo well diftinguiflied by 

 this part, we can have no hefitation in re-ellabhfhing Z. ful- 

 vum, as efTentially differing from feffiUfolium, whether our 

 fpecimen be what Linnzus intended or not. The capfule of 

 the real plant is above an inch long, with five acute angles, 

 and as many deep intermediate channels, and terminates in a 



point, being equally unlike feJfilifoUum on one hand, and 



Morgsana on the other. 



11. Tj. fpinofum. Spinous Bean-Caper. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 552. Mant. 380. Willd. n. 11. (Fabago tenuifolia 

 fpinofa, fruftu rotundo ; Burm. Afric. 5. t. 2. f. 2. ) — 

 Leaves conjugate, fefTile ; leaflets linear, flefhy, fmooth ; 

 flat above. Stem flirubby. Permanent ftipulas hooked, 

 fpinous. — Native of the Cape of Good Hope. The Jlem 

 is bufhy, fhrubby, about a foot high, branched from top to 

 bottom ; the branches acutely quadrangular. Leaves nu- 

 merous, flefhy like thofe of a Sedum ; the leaflets acute, 

 fcarcely an inch long, blurt, with a fmall point ; their 

 under fide convex, or hemifpherical. Stipulas in pairs, 

 fmall, lanceolate, fpreading, at length becoming hardened, 

 hooked, and pungent, fo as to form two, three, or four 

 prickles at every joint. Floiuers drooping, large and 

 handfome, on longifli, folitary, lateral ftalks. Calyx reddifh. 

 Petals yellow, fading to white, nearly or quite entire. 

 Nedaries entire, not fringed. Capfule, according to Bur- 

 mann, " round, fmooth, comprefled, terminating in the 

 very zcutejiyle." 



12. Z. microphyllum. Small-leaved Bean-Caper. Linn. 

 Suppl. 232. Willd. n. 9. Thunb. Prodr. 8c. — Leaves 

 conjugate, fomewhat flalked ; leaflets inverfely heart-fhaped, 

 fmooth. Stem fhrubby, with afcending branches. Cap- 

 fule roundifh, abrupt, of five compreffed lobes. Style per- 

 manent Gathered by Thunberg, at the Cape of Good 



Hope. This is one of thofe hard, rigid, fmall-Ieavcd, much 

 hrM\c\\ed Jhnibs, fo charafteriftic of the botany of its native 

 country. The branches are round, knotty, fpreading, 

 flightly hoary, or glaucous. Leaflets from one to three 

 lines long, thick, oblique, fometimes obovate, but more 

 frequently cloven, fo as to become inverfely heart-fhaped ; 

 they are fupported on a manifeft, though fhort, thick 



footflalk. Stipulas minute. Floiver-flalks thread-fhaped, 

 folitary, longer than the leaves, from the fame buds. 

 Flowers drooping, rather fmall, yellow. Calyx reflexed. 

 Capfule the diameter of a pea, confifting of five rounded, 

 vertical, compreffed lobes, crowned with the fpinous ftyle, 

 their furface rather reticulated : each of them burfls at the 

 inner, as well as outer, edge into two elaftic, or cartilaginous, 

 valves, coated with a thin fkiu. 



13. Z. retrofraBum. Recurved Bean-Caper. Thunb. 

 Prodr. 80 — Leaves conjugate, flalked ; leaflets obovate, 

 fmooth. Stem fhrubby, with fpreading recurved branches. 

 Flower-flalkr, (horter than the leaves. — Gathered at the 

 Cape of Good Hope, by profelTor Thunberg, from whom 

 we have a fpecimen. His fliort fpecific charadler was WiU- 

 denow's only guide, when the latter reduced this plant to 

 Z. fatidum, to which it has no afBnity, and very little re- 

 femblance. The prefent, thougli a very diftintl fpecies, is 

 mofl allied to Z. microphyllum, but the long, fpreading, de- 

 flexed branches afford a charatleriftic difference of habit. 

 The leaflets too are fmaller, and feem to be always obovate, 

 not obcordate. Fhwers very fmall, their little thick Jlalis 

 hardly fo long as the calyx. Ne3aries lanceolate, entire. 

 Gcrmen, after the other parts of the flower are fallen, 

 elhptic-oblong, deeply five-lobed, acute, crowned with the 

 ftyle ; but we have none in an advanced ftate, to enable us 

 to judge whether the lobes ever extend into a rounded 

 femi-orbicular fhape, like the laft, as may very probably be 

 the cafe. 



14. Z. afluans. Surinam Bean-Caper. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 552. Wiifd. n. 12 — Leaves conjugate, feflile; leaflets 

 obovate, abrupt. Stems herbaceous, diffufe. Stipulas five 

 at each joint — Gathered in Surinam by Roiander, who 

 ient feeds to Linnaeus ; but the plants raifed from them 



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